Chap. 374.—An AOT to Amend an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend the
Provisions of the Code in regard to the Supreme Court of Appeals, so
as to make them Conform to the New Constitution, approved June 23d,
1870, and for the Purpose of Hearing Causes at Winchester.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the twentieth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-two
of the Code, as amended by chapter one hundred and seventy-
one of the acts of the general assembly of session eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy, be
and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 20. Annually, before the court of appeals commences its
session at Richmond, Wytheville and Staunton, respectively,
the clerk at each place shall make out a docket of the causes
then ready for hearing. Those at each place shall be num-
bered by figures, and shall be docketed in the order in which
the causes were matured, and be heard in the same order,
except that upon the docket at Staunton the clerk shall docket
the cases from each circuit separately, in the order in which
they may be matured; and the cases from the counties of
Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page and Shenandoah, of the
twelfth circuit, may be heard at Winchester, in the county of
Frederick, at such time as the court may fix for the hearing of
said causes: provided, however, the same shall be heard
within the period of time allotted for the holding of the court
at Staunton. The clerk of the court at Staunton shall take
charge of all cases assigned to be heard at Winchester, and
shall attend said court and have the custody of the records of
said cases until the same shall be disposed of, and then re-
turned to the office of the clerk of the court at Staunton at the
end of each session at Winchester.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.